Gently Down

I started this blog for a few reasons, mostly because I was in my twenties and thought I was special. After I lost a pregnancy at my destination wedding and suffered from ptsd I found myself writing to help clear my head and to keep things from seeming “secret,” a problem many of us growing [...]

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My strongest belief currently: that the pauses matter as much as the events.

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When I was a child I had a doll with a heavy, floppy head. Her body was designed to feel exactly like a real baby’s, her arms moved exactly like a real baby when you picked her up, and her eyes fluttered when you laid her down. I was her third owner. I loved her [...]

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A more detailed response to Martha Brockenbrough’s post about teaching your kid to invite the outcast. And what such a situation meant for me.

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We’ve learned that Ben has a “disorder of motor planning,” which can’t technically be diagnosed as apraxia until he’s 3, as I understand it. But, of course, getting coverage for speech therapy isn’t as easy as you’d like.

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